{"id":109719,"date":"2025-09-01T00:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109719\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T00:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:47:16","slug":"oscar-piastri-wins-dutch-grand-prix-after-lando-norris-car-breaks-down-team-principal-andrea-stella-weighs-in-no-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109719\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri wins Dutch Grand Prix after Lando Norris’ car breaks down; team principal Andrea Stella weighs in no title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris<\/a>‘ chances of beating Oscar Piastri<\/a> to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix went up in smoke – literally – and now his title chances are at risk too.<\/p>\n

Piastri won the Dutch Grand Prix<\/a> on Monday morning (AEST) after teammate Norris’ McLaren<\/a> broke down in what could prove a turning point in the title race.<\/p>\n

Norris was chasing Piastri late in the race when the British driver reported a \u201cfunny\u201d smell in his cockpit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don’t know if I’m on fire or not,\u201d Norris said.<\/p>\n

Norris ended the race standing behind a barrier at the side of the track with race marshals and his broken-down car.<\/p>\n

It was the second time this season he’s failed to finish after colliding with Piastri at the Canadian Grand Prix in June.<\/p>\n

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Lando Norris\u00a0Twitter<\/p>\n

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen passed the stricken Norris to cheers from the crowd for second place at his home Grand Prix, while Isack Hadjar of Racing Bulls took his first-ever podium finish in third.<\/p>\n

But the event belonged to Piastri, who extended his lead over second-placed Norris from nine points to 34 with nine races remaining in the F1 season.<\/p>\n

The battle between the two McLaren teammates is far from over, although Norris conceded everything will have to go his way for the remainder of the season to reel his teammate in. <\/p>\n

“It’s only made it harder for me and put me under more pressure. But it’s almost a big enough gap now that I can just chill out about it and just go for it,” Norris said. <\/p>\n

“The only thing I can do is try to win every race. That’s going to be difficult, but I’ll make sure I give it everything I can.<\/p>\n

“Tough one. Of course it’s frustrating. It hurts a bit, it hurts for sure, in a championship point of view. It’s a lot of points to lose so quickly and so easily.<\/p>\n

“I was quick today and it is impossible to overtake here. I was happy I could stay within 2 seconds of (Piastri). It was a positive race but it didn’t mean anything.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing I can control now, so I’ll just take it on the chin and move on. Oscar deserved it today, it was just not my weekend.”<\/p>\n

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Oscar Piastri\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella admitted the team “experienced both the joy and the pain” of motor racing in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

However, he warned the gap on the overall standings between his two drivers is not one Piastri will consider a “comfortable” advantage.<\/p>\n

“If possible, we will see even the best of Lando as he tries to recover the points he missed,” he said.<\/p>\n

“When he says he’s going to be fully committed, it just means that if anything, he will try to extract out of himself even more incredible potential.<\/p>\n

“I’m sure this situation in the championship will give him extra motivation to try and extract it.”<\/p>\n

\"Oscar<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri leads Lando Norris during the F1 Grand Prix of Netherlands at Circuit Zandvoort.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Piastri’s win required him to manage three safety car restarts, holding off Norris twice and then keeping Verstappen behind him after Norris’ breakdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously it was incredibly unfortunate for Lando at the end,\u201d Piastri said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it felt like I was in control of that (race) and used the pace that I needed to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verstappen had received a hug from King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands before the race and his second place was popular with the orange-clad Dutch fans.<\/p>\n

It was Red Bull’s first podium finish in a Grand Prix, rather than a sprint race, under new team principal Laurent Mekies following the firing of Christian Horner.<\/p>\n

Hadjar was lifted off the ground and slapped on the back by a crowd of jubilant team members as they celebrated Racing Bulls’ first podium result in four years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was always the target since I was a kid, so this is the first step,\u201d Hadjar said. \u201cMy first podium and hopefully much more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris‘ chances of beating Oscar Piastri to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix went up in smoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-109719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}